Are You an Effective, Synthetic Executive?
I'll share with you a secret from working with many global organizations - ninety nine percent of executives are analytical thinkers and one percent are synthetic thinkers. And the reason I say this is, I believe it to be true, I don't have any survey or scientific study on it. But just my observation over the years and even the one percent that are synthetic thinkers are usually in systems where they can't operate with their brains being in a synthetic mode. Efficiency is "doing things right" and being effective is "doing the right things." And so when we look at the way organizations are designed and the way that we improve performance, we talk in terms of these individual types of silos that exist in organizations. So, for instance, we…
